Tag: Mysuru City Corporation

Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), which has taken up a drive to clear footpath encroachments in various parts of city, has pulled down over 320 encroachments on Hanumanthanagar Main Road in Bannimantap here this morning. Armed with five JCB machines, tractor and trailer, 40 gang men, led by MCC Assistant Commissioner Mahesh and Development…

Mysuru: Senior Citizens Forum, Rajarajeshwarinagar, has urged Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath to restore the bus shelter near Kamakshi Hospital, in the larger interest of the public as they visit the hospital regularly. In a letter to the Mysuru City Corporation Commissioner and Mayor, the Forum has said that the bus shelter near Kamakshi Hospital in Saraswathipuram…

Mysuru: People in Mysuru can now get their birth and death certificates online. All one has to do is go to this ejanma.kar.nic.in and apply for it. The facility will be made available in 15 days and certificates can be obtained in any of the nine MCC zones. Raising the issue at the Council meeting,…

Mysuru: Regretting that nearly 70 percent of corpus fund earmarked by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) for the welfare of the physically challenged has remained unutilised, MCC Commissioner K.H. Jagadeesha said that this was mainly due to lack of awareness among the physically challenged. He was speaking after inaugurating the International Day of Persons with…

On December 18, Parvathamma, a vegetable vendor, was attacked by stray horses. The attack was so swift and severe that the horses killed her within a minute! Now, while the horses are branded killers, the real killers are the irresponsible horse owners who let these horses loose on city streets, and with that, as if…

Mysuru: Demanding to clear wages for drivers and rent for the vehicles hired by them, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) contract vehicle drives staged protest in front of the MCC yesterday. They accused that they have not been paid rent since three months for the vehicles used by the MCC. They said that the MCC has…

Before you claim the word ‘asshole’ is in bad taste and send me hate mails, stop and channel that displeasure towards your local government that constantly digs up an old manhole after it has just laid a new road on it. And before you call me to say I have no sense of public decency,…

Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) may be thinking of levying yet another cess. But one of the cesses it is already collecting — the library cess — is not being put into much use as the money is still pending in MCC coffers. The MCC owes a whopping Rs. 17 crore to the Department…

By Bhamy V. Shenoy The most important task for any civic body like Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is to collect a maximum amount of Property Tax. Without adequate funding, MCC cannot fulfil its civic responsibilities of providing clean water, keeping city garbage-free, maintaining parks, ensuring safe roads, etc. As can be seen in the graph…

While efforts are on across the world to purify sewage water so that it can be used for potable purposes to ease the shortage of pure water, it is shocking to find in Mysuru that sewage water is being directly drained into a drinking water purifying unit. A Star of Mysore reader has sent this…

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